Everyone invage this room has probably had the experience of wandering through an older u. S. City and stumbling into the beguiling section of a rural cemetery. With its vast collection of gravestones and tombs and miniature temples interspersed among rolling hills, woods, and dales. Dales. It is an Outdoor Museum in more ways than one. It was a striking difference. The object that surround us here in this Beautiful Museum are lovingly and superbly conserved as if they were all made yesterday or teleported a regular from every age of the past into our present. Even in the greatest rural cemeteries like this one, the Allegheny Cemetery in pittsburgh, the passage and pressure of time are everywhere visible. Coatesidues of past eras the graves and factory smoke and coal dust. The stone and metal erode. Sometimes fall into the ground. By the way, this is not what every grade in the elegant what every grave in the Allegheny Cemetery looks like. Images dissolve before our eyes and the names
For their wonderful work on the bliss of the. And i think former staffers teresa and i think former staffers for their aid with my archival and photo research. This book literally would not have been possible without their expertise and assistance. Since we are here on site, i want to set the scene at the white house of the confederacy, nextdoor. I want to make sure you know the setting before we get started. Can everyone hear me ok . Is that good . Book,oing to read from my winnie davis, daughter of the lost cause, from the introduction. The girls who loved the poison great, the girls to country true, can never in wedlock give their hands to those who were the blue. This is from a southern poem called true to the gray. Was april 1864, in richmond, virginia. The northern and Southern United States were locked in an epic battle for dominance over states rights and slavery. Thousands were being slaughtered every day. Richmond was literally surrounded by rivers of blood. Depressed and dow
Watching recalled, they made two attacks and they fell like autumn leaves. The georgians leave us some of our best accounts of their anger at the sight of armed black men, such as james verderi of the 48th georgia infantry sharing with his dear sister the day after the battle, the prisoners came leaping over our breastworks by 50 but our men took none, for they, he underlined this part, were niggers. Burnsides ninth army corps. As fast as they came over, the bayonet was plunged through their hearts. The muzzle of our gun was put on their temple and their brains blown out. Others are knocked in the head with the butts of their gun. Few would succeed in getting to the rear safe. Dorsey binian, also the 48th georgian, someone who ought to know about beating black bodies since he had been over he was an overseer before the war began, told his dear sister, mary, just 11 days afterwards, when we got to the works it was filled with negroes and yanks crying out no quarter. When a handtohand co
We are going up some things to share with you. This is going to be a fun show. But, the unfinished fight lees army after appomattox comes to from university of North Carolina press whom we think forgetting professor on this program with us and for publishing this fine book. We are selling to you in the First Edition. It is three to 31 pages, illustrations and maps are going to share some of those with you during the course of this conversation. We are send this First Edition copy to you with a custom Abraham Lincoln bookshop signed bookplate too. I want to thank you, for signing this book plates sending them back to us. Folks at home, let me tell you a little bit little bit about caroline e janie shes the professor and history of the American Civil War and the director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. That is a lot, i know that job that is the job. It is a wonderful job pretty could not be better. The namesake on your job is really one of the unheralde
An intellectual feast. Every saturday, American History tv documents america story and on sundays, book tv brings you the latest on nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan two comes from these Television Companies and more. Including cox. Homework can be hard, but squatting in a diner for in a network is even harder. Thats why we are providing lower income students access to affordable internet. So homework can just be homework. Talks connect to compete. Cox, along with these Television Companies, support cspan 2 as a public service. Now, our guest today i want to introduce our guest right now is professor Caroline Janney. And her book is, the unfinished fight of lees army after appomattox. Lets take a quick look at it. Were gonna have so many things to share with you. This is going to be a fun show. ends of war the unfinished fight of lees army after appomattoxcomes to you from university of North Carolina press, whom we thank for helping get professor Caroline Janney on this